Stars, I have seen them fall,
But when they drop and die
No star is lost at all
From all the star-sown sky.
The toil of all that be
Helps not the primal fault;
It rains into the sea,
And still the sea is salt.

A few random poems:
- Robert Burns: On Tam The Chapman:
- Владимир Луговской – Обращение
- The Yeoman of Kent by William Somervile
- Where The Mind Is Without Fear by Rabindranath Tagore
- Watching the Bird Watcher by Richard Schiffman
- A Little Tooth by Thomas Lux
- eclipse_of_love.html
- how far are you? by Raj Arumugam
- Manifesto for your smile and my songs by Vinko Kalinic
- Ольга Берггольц – Надежда
- Elegy on the Death of Sir James Hunter Blair by Robert Burns
- Владимир Маяковский – Электричество – вид энергии
- Ольга Ермолаева – Если о плачущих
- In Memoriam 16: I envy not in any moods poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- So Soon Done! by Luis Estable
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh
Poems in English
- Sonnet I
- Sonnet 12
- Sonnet 11
- Sonnet 10
- Sonnet 08
- Sonnet 07
- Sonnet 06
- Sonnet 05
- Sonnet 04
- Sonnet 03
- Sonnet 02
- Sonnet 01
- Resurgam
- Rendezvous
- On The Cliffs Newport
- On A Theme In The Greek Anthology
- Ode In Memory Of The American Volunteers Fallen For France
- Maktoob
- Lyonesse
- Liebestod
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)
Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.
Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees
Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.
Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.
Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works